On that one I feel that I really should talk about what's in the report, because as a commission, we did not commission research into that area. Justice Gomery was very concerned about the need for a simple, straightforward statement of ethics that would apply to perhaps not even just the public service, but public appointments generally, including the boards, corporations, and so on.
The problem is finding one like that. For instance, the current code of ethics of the public service is really chunks of the report of John Tait's task force, put into codified form. Tait himself said in the introduction to his report that it wasn't meant as a code of ethics. It winds up as a fairly long and cumbersome thing. It covers an enormous amount of territory, and you give it credit for that, but it isn't short and inspiring like, say, the Ten Commandments.
The one that's mentioned in the report on that is the British “Seven Principles of Public Life”, and that I think is well worth looking at.
But there's a real risk, you see, in entrenching these things in laws, because then the courts make the decision on what's right and wrong and it might well be that Parliament would rather retain that right to itself than give it to the courts.